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Practical articles from Palmate Solutions on APIs, hosting, automation, e-commerce technology, and software planning — written beside the tools and services on this site. Page 2 of 4.
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45 articles, newest first. Page 2 of 4.
Cloud & DevOps
How to Monitor a Business Application Without Alert Fatigue
Metrics, logs, and pages that mean “act” — lag, error rates, and disk — instead of a dashboard nobody opens and a channel nobody reads.
4 August 2026 · 5 min read
Automation
When to Use Zapier vs Custom Automation
A practical split: when a workflow tool is enough, when you need a queued job you own, and how zaps become the integration layer you cannot debug.
2 August 2026 · 6 min read
Automation
How to Write SOPs That Can Be Automated
Turn tribal knowledge into a procedure with named systems, ids, exceptions, and pause points — so automation is encoding, not guessing.
30 July 2026 · 5 min read
Automation
Human-in-the-Loop Automation: Review Queues That Work
Where a person must approve, edit, or reject machine output — without recreating the inbox you tried to kill.
28 July 2026 · 5 min read
E-commerce Technology
Why E-commerce Stores Oversell and How to Stop It
Overselling is usually a design problem: dual writers, no reservations, and channel lag — not a warehouse that cannot count.
26 July 2026 · 5 min read
E-commerce Technology
What to Expect from Payment Gateway Integration
Capture, webhooks, reconcile, refunds, and test mode — the operational contract behind “add Razorpay / Stripe,” not a checkout button mockup.
24 July 2026 · 5 min read
E-commerce Technology
Designing a Product Catalogue for Multi-Channel Selling
SKUs, packs, variants, and channel listings as a model — so Amazon, the website, and the warehouse are not three different products with the same photo.
22 July 2026 · 5 min read
Business Systems
When to Replace Spreadsheets with Software
Spreadsheets are a valid system until they are the integration layer, the audit trail, and the only person who understands the formulas is on leave.
20 July 2026 · 5 min read
Business Systems
How to Write Software Requirements Developers Can Build From
Jobs, rules, exceptions, and examples — a brief that survives a sprint without a meeting to decode every mockup.
18 July 2026 · 5 min read
Business Systems
MVP vs V1: What to Ship First
Cut scope on purpose: a release thesis, explicit non-goals, and how “MVP” becomes a programme when nobody names what will wait.
16 July 2026 · 5 min read
Security
Access Control and Secrets Hygiene for Small Teams
Shared logins, keys in chat, and leftover contractor accounts — a practical baseline for who can do what, without an enterprise IAM programme.
14 July 2026 · 5 min read
Security
What Small Companies Should Do After a Security Incident
Contain, preserve, communicate, and recover — a practical sequence for a leaked key, a defaced site, or a ransomed laptop, not a Hollywood IR playbook.
12 July 2026 · 7 min read